How to Make my Macbook Read Text
The popularity of Apple is rising with every passing day and understandably so. The company has earned itself a great reputation by putting nothing but the most attractive products in the market, which includes but is not limited to iPod, iPad and MacBook. Every single product of Apple has been praised by the users because of offering an experience that other companies have struggled to offer.
For a company that is doing so good in an extremely competitive market, Apple has not let its success make it overlook the requirements of consumers who have difficulty reading words on the screen or otherwise sight impaired. It includes a utility in its Mac OS X operating system for the purpose of making it convenient for the people suffering from sight impairment to still use the MacBook. The accessibility options has not only allowed Apple to attract more consumers, but also let the consumers know that it cares about them.
Instructions
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The first thing you need to do is to turn on the power of your MacBook.
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Once the MacBook starts, locate and click the Apple logo. It is typically located on the menu bar of the desktop.
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Pressing the Apple logo will display a drop-down menu. Locate and click the “System Preference” option from the menu top open System Preference in a new window.
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You will find the “Universal Access” button in the “System” section of “System Preferences.” Click the “Universal Access” button and then click the”Seeing” tab.
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Look for the box under “VoiceOver” and click it to check it.
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Open the VoiceOver Utility window by clicking the “Open VoiceOver Utility” button.
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From here, you can customise the utilities using the options that are listed on the screen. Locate “Speech” and click it to customise the option. You can either select the default voice from the available list of voices, or you can select another voice to read out the text on the screen. Try out the different voices until you find one that satisfies you.
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Next, launch any application on the MacBook that supports the VoiceOver utility. If you are a fan of Apple products, then your MacBook would surely have iTunes installed on it. Run iTunes and then select “Edit” from the menu bar.
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Locate and click “Speech” from the drop-down menu. After you have done that, click “Start Speaking” to activate the VoiceOver utility and make it read the text on the screen.
